Gaza ceasefire: Israel allows Palestinians to return to north Gaza

People walk along Gaza's coastal al-Rashid Street to cross the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip into the north on January 27, 2025. Displaced Palestinians began returning to northern Gaza on January 27, an official at the territory's Hamas-run Interior Ministry told AFP, after a breakthrough in negotiations between Hamas and Israel.

A youth gestures while sitting with other children on the boot of a moving vehicle as people gather along the Salah Al Din road in Nuseirat near the Netzarim corridor waiting to cross to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

This aerial photo shows displaced Gazans walking toward Gaza City on January 27, 2025, after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip. An unending stream of people marched up the coast of Gaza on January 27, carrying their belongings in plastic bags and repurposed flour sacks through the central city of Nuseirat after Israel reopened access to the territory's north.

Displaced Palestinians wait along the Salah Al Din road in Nuseirat to cross to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

People gather by a banner welcoming people near the rubble of a collapsed building along Gaza's coastal Al Rashid Street for people to cross from the Israeli-blocked Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip into Gaza City.

Palestinian policewomen stand near a banner welcoming people arriving to the northern Gaza Strip.

Displaced Gazans gathering in an area in Nuseirat to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

A displaced Palestinian boy transports boxes of humanitarian aid in Nuseirat in central Gaza Strip.

Displaced Palestinians wait along the Salah Al-Din road in Nuseirat near the blocked Netzarim corridor, to cross to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Displaced Palestinians sit in the back of a car as they wait along the Salah Al-Din road in Nuseirat to cross to the northern part of the Gaza Strip

Displaced Palestinians sit atop their belongings as they wait along the Salah Al-Din road in Nuseirat to cross to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

A displaced Palestinian boy sits atop family belongings as he waits along the Salah Al-Din road in Nuseirat to cross to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.